"When people are fairly young and the musical composition of their lives is still in its opening bars, they can go about writing it together and exchanging motifs...but if they meet when they are older...their musical compositions are more or less complete, and every motif, every object, every word means something different to each of them." -Milan Kundera

10 March 2013

Professor Peter Hoberg: "You know how old I am?"Jesse Fisher: "No, how old are you?Professor Peter Hoberg: "It's none of your goddamn business. Do you know how old I feel like I am?"Jesse Fisher: [shrugs]Professor Peter Hoberg: "19. Since I was 19, I have never felt not 19. But I shave my face, and I look in the mirror, and I'm forced to say, "This is not a 19-year-old staring back at me." [sighs]. Teaching here all these years, I've had to be very clear with myself, that even when I'm surrounded by 19-year-olds, and I may have felt 19, I'm not 19 anymore. You follow me?Jesse Fisher: "Yeah."Professor Peter Hoberg: "Nobody feels like an adult. It's the world's dirty secret."-From Liberal Arts

About The Project

Music is Memory is a project that seeks to understand connections between music and memory. Primarily, I am interested in collecting the memories (and emotions) that we, as individuals, have attached to particular songs. I "collect" memories of hearing a song for the first time, but also how these memories change and meld over time.